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1939 Calendar Trivia
The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2034. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.
April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.
1939 Calendar
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Historical Events Of 1939
- February 10, 1939 – Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.
- February 19, 1939 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- March 1, 1939 – An Imperial Japanese Army ammunition dump explodes at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94.
- March 14, 1939 – Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
- April 1, 1939 – Spanish Civil War: Generalísimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announces the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrender.
- April 14, 1939 – The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
- September 3, 1939 – World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, forming the Allies.
- September 22, 1939 – Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland.
- September 30, 1939 – General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
- November 15, 1939 – In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
Who Were Born On 1939?
- March 16, 1939 – Carlos Bilardo, Argentinian footballer and coach
- March 31, 1939 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian anthropologist and politician, 1st President of Georgia (d. 1993)
- May 13, 1939 – Harvey Keitel, American actor and producer
- May 22, 1939 – Paul Winfield, American actor (d. 2004)
- May 27, 1939 – Sokratis Kokkalis, Greek businessman
- June 6, 1939 – Gary U.S. Bonds, American singer-songwriter
- August 3, 1939 – Apoorva Sengupta, Indian general and cricketer
- September 13, 1939 – Guntis Ulmanis, Latvian economist and politician, 5th President of Latvia
- October 11, 1939 – Austin Currie, Irish lawyer and politician
- October 14, 1939 – Rocky Thompson, American golfer and politician